Gillian Tett
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242 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Gillian Tett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They say that money runs the world.
Financial history has an uncanny way of repeating itself.
Hosted by me, Gillian Tett.
Whether it's artificial intelligence bubbles or the next big market crash.
If you don't understand the past.
Follow the story of money wherever you get your podcasts.
But will you tell us what does that mean, first of all, and how does that come to life?
Well, using a word like that probably makes me sound like a sort of, you know, posh professor or something like that.
And I am actually also linked to Cambridge University.
So you actually are a posh professor.
I'm not a professor, but I run a college there called King's College.
And anthropomorphise basically means that you are treating the stock market
as if it wasn't just a bunch of numbers or an abstract thing out there, but as a living being that has feelings and moods and sentiments and thoughts of its own.
And there's a growing tendency to do that, to treat it as if it was a real-life thing or creature that, as we like to say, feels upset at latest data releases or it decides to test a new level in the stock market or something like that.
So that's really what's going on at the moment as people are increasingly look at the stock market, not just as a mirror to ourselves and a barometer about how we feel about the future, but also almost like a quasi God or sometimes demon that's keeping tabs on us all.
I think it's an absolutely brilliant question because the reality is that, to use another big word, there's been an enormous amount of financialisation in America.
And that means treating everything in life as if it was an asset which could be bought or sold and have a price put on it.
And the capital markets, the stock market and the bond market, have exploded in size.
not just relative to the past in America, but relative to other countries.
And the American stock market has gone up dramatically.
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